Any addition to the literary world deserves to be welcomed. Even more so if it is a new investigator willing to offer us new cases with which to enjoy the police genre. The researcher in question is called Albert Martínez, and in his characterization he adopts the role of a James Bond to the Barcelona, although with reminiscences to the most traditional Pepe Carvalho of the mythical Vazquez Montalban.
So it can be said that good old Albert Martínez presents himself with an exceptional letter of recommendation. The case that he has to assume is that of a mysterious disappearance of a wealthy guy who seemed to have swallowed the Mediterranean Sea after a walk with whom he could have thrown him after an obvious argument.
And there, by the sea is where Albert discovers that what points to an easy matter of settling accounts (whatever the pending accounts that the rich have among themselves), is complicated until it becomes an intricate tangle of difficult solution.
One's own family can be the space where the greatest secrets are kept, necessary to have the light with which to find the way to the resolution of such a case. But the most recognized families are not the best place to rummage ...
A fast-paced story. A great plot that surrounds a mystery between bourgeois Barcelona, until the resolution makes its way, at all costs and takes whoever it takes. The Mediterranean Sea, the breakwater where it breaks in front of the city of Barcelona. The waves like a whisper that wanted to convey the secret. The final trick, the real nature of the disappearance in the hands of a city that seems to close in on itself, confidant of its biggest secrets.
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